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HOUSTON - Former U.S. first lady Barbara Bush was resting comfortably after undergoing successful open heart surgery Wednesday to replace her aortic valve, a family spokesman and hospital officials said. The surgery at The Methodist Hospital lasted about 2?? hours and was scheduled last week after Bush, 83, experienced a shortness of breath, family spokesman Jim McGrath said. He said doctors determined...
March 4, 2009
Gabrielle Meunier, a controller for a Vermont real estate company, has deployed technology to speed and improve her work. She wants governments to do the same to speed and improve food-borne illness investigations. She has more than a passing interest in the subject. Her son, Christopher, 7, suffered salmonella poisoning as part of the peanut-related outbreak tied in January to products made by the...
March 4, 2009
Secondhand smoke not only can irritate your lungs, it also apparently can blacken your mood as well, a large study reports today. Non-smokers exposed to cigarette smoke at home or work are more than twice as likely as those not exposed to have major depression, according to a report at the American Psychosomatic Society meeting in Chicago. It's believed to be the first U.S. study tying secondhand smoke...
March 4, 2009
WASHINGTON - Fifteen years after the last Democratic president failed to overhaul the nation's troubled health care system, President Obama kicks off his effort to try again today by bringing all the major players together at the White House. It's a largely symbolic move, to be followed in the months ahead by tough negotiations over health care costs, access and quality. Even so, the White House has...
March 4, 2009
WASHINGTON - If someone told you that kids need to think critically and creatively, be technologically savvy and work well with others, you'd nod in agreement, right? At least 10 states have committed to helping students develop these "21st-century skills" in schools, the workplace and beyond. Most recently, officials in Massachusetts committed to working with the Arizona-based Partnership for 21st...
March 4, 2009
To paraphrase an old rock song, "Put on your red dress, ladies 'cause we're gonna talk about" women and heart disease awareness. That's just what several women and girls did Saturday afternoon during the "Red Dress Runway Affair" in Center Court at Quincy Place Mall. Coordinator Heather McKelvey said the red dress is a national symbol for women and heart disease. The local event started last year and...
March 4, 2009
NEW HAVEN, Conn., Mar 4, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - A U.S. study of mice sheds light on the insulin resistance that can come from diets loaded with high-fructose corn syrup, researchers said. The study, published in the journal Cell Metabolism, showed mice on a high-fructose diet were protected from insulin resistance when a gene known as transcriptional coactivator PPARg coactivator-1b - PGC-1b - was...
March 4, 2009
WASHINGTON, Mar 3, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Legislation introduced in Maryland's General Assembly requires restaurants to ban trans fats and list calories of foods on the menu. One bill, sponsored by state Sen. David Harrington, a Democrat, and Delegate Doyle Niemann, a Democrat, would require calorie counts on fast-food chains' menu boards and expanded nutrition information on chain restaurants' printed...
March 4, 2009
Depression almost doubles the risk of developing heart disease over 12 years, according to a long-term study of twins. The findings are to be reported today at the American Psychosomatic Society meeting in Chicago. Mounting evidence has found that depression makes people more vulnerable to heart trouble. Recent studies, though, find that some genes that increase the risk of heart disease also may make...
March 3, 2009
GENESEO, N.Y., Mar 3, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - A college student in upstate New York died after drinking large quantities of beer, champagne, vodka and gin over 10 hours, police said. Arman Partamian, 19, a sophomore at the State University of New York at Geneseo was pronounced dead Sunday afternoon, The Rochester Democrat and Chronicle reported. Partamian was found at an off-campus house. Police got...
March 3, 2009
WASHINGTON, Mar 4, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Legislation before a U.S. House of Representatives panel would place tobacco regulation under the control of the Food and Drug Administration, observers said. The bill being considered by the House Energy and Commerce Committee would also regulate how cigarette manufacturers can market their products, require them to disclose ingredients, include larger warning...
March 3, 2009
The Food and Drug Administration does not have the information, resources or recall ability necessary to adequately regulate dietary supplements, according to a Government Accountability Office report released this week. Congress requested the evaluation of how the FDA regulates these popular products. The Nutrition Business Journal reports that 79% of adult Americans take dietary supplements. The...
March 3, 2009
Tamyra Ames describes her oldest son as a "heart attack waiting to happen." When Luke was only 18 months old, he climbed out of bed, unlocked the door, opened the gate and toddled into the street. Six months later, he sneaked through a sliding door and climbed into the pool. When he was 8, he pushed through the screen and tumbled out a second-story window, surviving with minor bruises. Her twins, Kathryn...
March 3, 2009
About 1.6 million people across the globe die annually of pneumonia, half of them children under the age of five, according to two new studies released Tuesday. "Pneumonia is a leading killer disease in the world among children under the age of five. It kills more than AIDS, measles and malaria combined," Jean Marie Okwo-Bel of the World Health Organisation said during the release of the reports. India...
March 3, 2009
Doctors are failing to diagnose HIV in older patients, who are exposed to greater risk of infection as erectile dysfunction drugs extend their sex lives, a study published by the World Health Organisation said on Tuesday. The report in the WHO Bulletin found that increasing numbers of sexually active people aged 50 and upwards - who are more likely to risk unprotected sex than younger people - are...
March 3, 2009
WASHINGTON - "Harder on Cancer, easier on you," proclaims the banner on the University of Florida Proton Therapy Institute website, a pitch to men scouring the Internet for advice on prostate cancer. This type of radiation treatment targets tumors more precisely than X-rays, the site claims, reducing side effects. But a study found that though proton beam therapy is at least five times as expensive...
March 3, 2009
When cancer and Crohn's disease invaded my life, simultaneously no less, the silver lining in the very dark cloud was that they were both fairly common, well-understood diseases. I could spend hundreds of hours on the Internet and in bookstores researching treatments, and there were local organizations and programs in place to provide support. But what about the nearly 30 million Americans and countless...
March 3, 2009
LONDON - Children who watch TV longer than two hours a day have twice the risk of developing asthma, British researchers reported yesterday. "Breathing patterns associated with sedentary behavior could lead to developmental changes in the lungs," wrote the University of Glasgow's Andrea Sherriff, whose team studied more than 3,000 kids from birth to age 12. Boys and girls who routinely sit in front...
March 2, 2009
MINNEAPOLIS, Mar 2, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Many middle-aged and older Americans are not getting adequate nutrition, even with the assistance of dietary supplements, U.S. researchers said. Pamela J. Schreiner of the University of Minnesota and colleagues found that potassium intake was very much below the recommended daily allowances whether supplements were taken or not. This could point to a need...
March 2, 2009
Ken Pickels loves to eat. But after years of pretty much eating what he wanted when he wanted and not being particularly concerned with nutrition, he radically changed his dining habits. Almost dying will do that for you. Pickels weighed more than 300 pounds when he had a heart attack in 2006 at age 50. Physicians used stents to prop open blocked arteries and get his heart working properly again. The...
March 2, 2009
TV ads and movies that portray the use of alcohol are an immediate stimulus for drinking among young people, according to a study published on Wednesday. Dutch scientists recruited 80 male university students in an innovative experiment on pro-alcohol messages. The guinea pigs watched a movie in a specially set-up lab aimed at replicating conditions in which people watch TV at home with friends. The...
March 2, 2009
Health officials believe that a 9-year-old Long Island boy is the second child in Nassau County to die from the flu in less then a month. More lab work must be done to confirm cause of death, but their preliminary investigation indicates the boy died from influenza A, a serious strain of the illness. It's the same strain that killed a 10-year-old Levittown girl last month. Her death was the first recorded...
March 2, 2009
Hanover, Germany (dpa) - In a demonstration of high-speed "design thinking," teams of academics were racing Tuesday at the CeBIT computing show in Germany to find ways to ease the stress for today's internet-connected people. Staff and students of the Hasso Plattner Institute, which trains software designers in Potsdam, near Berlin, and Palo Alto, California, are to be given a succession of tasks all...
March 2, 2009
If you're out of work, someone - a relative, colleague or financial adviser - has probably emphasized the importance of continuing your health insurance. Given the cost, though, that might only be decent advice if you own a trust fund that hasn't been torpedoed by the bear market. The economic stimulus package signed into law last month seeks to address the high costs by subsidizing COBRA premiums...
March 2, 2009
A testosterone patch aimed at boosting the sex drive of women with low hormone levels caused by womb and ovary removal may not work and its long-term safety is unknown, a medical journal reported Tuesday. Sold by US company Procter and Gamble under the brand name Intrinsa, the patch releases small amounts of testosterone, which is a naturally occurring sex hormone in both men and women. It has been...
March 2, 2009
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